A non-governmental organisation,
Advocacy for Advancement of Peace and Harmony in Africa Initiative (ADAPHAI)
has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent turn of political
events in Nigeria, saying that the President’s action and inaction were
becoming threat to democracy.

The group, while speaking with
journalists on Tuesday through his National Coordinator, Comrade Sulaimon
Suberu, on the reported siege by security operatives at the residences of two
principal officers of the National Assembly, namely: Senate President Bukola
Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, said the President was
becoming “dangerously desperate”.

Suberu asserted that the outright
clampdown on seeming political enemies by the presidency is totally inimical to
democratic principles and against ideal democratic norm, calling for caution.

He opined that the rate at which
“President Buhari and his foot soldiers were going about the 2019 ambition of
the President was heating up the polity unnecessarily”.

ADAPHAI said, “The present
political intricacies playing out in Nigeria is a bad omen to say the least, it
poses a serious threat to survival of Nigeria as a corporate entity and the
indivisibility of our sovereignty.

“The humanitarian crisis
presently engulfed the North East and Middle belt has made our country more
vulnerable than ever in history.

“Despite this huge security
challenges, we were taken aback by the pattern of security deployment during
Ekiti election, where over hundred of thousands security agents were on ground
to monitor an election in a state with just 16 local governments, while such
security arrangement could not be deployed to those volatile areas.

“It became more worrisome when
the presidency reacted to the All Progressives Congress’ victory at the poll as
if a war had been won.

“The latest, which is the power
struggle between the Senate and the Presidency, apparently because of the 2019
general election is indeed unimaginable.”

Suberu went on to call on
international community to intervene and save Nigeria from impending danger.

He explained that the status of
Nigeria in Africa makes every issue in the country a source of concern for
every conscious individual in the continent and beyond.